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NPR's John Burnett visits a school on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border where Afghan women and girls are learning to read and write. The classes are sponsored by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan and they would be illegal in the Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan. Some of the women describe their treatment under the harsh Taliban rule.

As more evidence emerges of Russian troops torturing and executing civilians in Ukraine, Germany is under pressure to cut off a major income stream currently funding Putin's war.

On April 15, 1947, a young Black man named Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers and officially broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.

The data has potential implications for public health messaging.

The Sept. 11 terror attacks have had a profound effect on Muslim Americans. In the first of a three-part series, NPR's Duncan Moon talks to Muslims in the 'Little Mecca' area of Falls Church, Va. about how racial and religious profiling is impacting their civil liberties -- and their faith.

The MacArthur Foundation is probably best known for its "genius grants," $500,000, no-strings-attached awards given every year to exceptionally creative people. Lisa Simeone talks to David Wilson, founder and curator of the wonderfully offbeat and esoteric Museum of Jurassic Technology.

Slavery remains a fact of life in some isolated parts of Africa. The Mauritanian government outlawed slavery more than two decades ago, but slavery, in some forms, exists to this day.

The vote on the historic nomination was 53 to 47, with three Republicans voting with Democrats. When sworn in this summer, Jackson will be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

Chancellor Olaf Schmidt said the measure is necessary to prepare for a new rise in cases and a possible new variant later in the year.

Confronted with the mess she's made at her startup Theranos, Holmes simply runs at the end of the Hulu show.